Recently I found an issue with a newly promoted domain controller missing the SYSVOL and NETLOGON shares. Most of the cases it would also be a new domain controller for an existing or new forest. In most cases, you would need to update the flag below. Open Regedit Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters Set SysVolReady from 0 to […]
Recently, I wanted to know what the tombstone lifetime was in my environment and decided to find this using PowerShell. There are a number of ways I could do this but dong it through PowerShell would be much easier. For those of you that are new to the attribute, a good explanation of it is: […]
Prepare for 2019 Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for “Business, Commercial or Production use” without a commercial license. End of Public Updates for Oracle JDK 8 Is Oracle Java still free? The current version of Java – Java SE 9 as well as Java […]
Applies to: Windows 10, version 1803, Windows Server version 1803, Windows 10, version 1709, Windows Server Datacenter Core, and Windows Server Standard Core As users and organizations are upgrading to Windows 10 Build 1709/1803 they should be aware that SMB 1.0 is no longer installed by default. Among other things, this is going to start a […]
Ran into this issue with ConfigMgr 2012 R2 where it was unable to synchronize Software Update Point with the WSUS server. A review of the component status messages for the SMS_WSUS_SYNC_MANAGER component on the primary site server reveals errors related to WSUS synchronization which are similar to the following: Got the following error when trying […]
After you install Active Directory on Windows Server 2008 R2, you may start seeing the following error message after the server boots: The DFS Namespace service could not initialize cross forest trust information on this domain controller, but it will periodically retry the operation. The return code is in the record data. This occurs because […]
Steps: Make sure HBA is connected on the PCI slot and visible under esx hardware list:
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esxcli hardware pci list |
Check if VMKernel can detect any storage via Fibre Channel
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esxcli storage san fc list |
(output will be blank line if HBA driver is missing but HBA appears to be in PCI card determined from step 1)
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esxcli storage core adapter rescan |
Search and download the […]
CentOS guest instances in VMware sometimes come up with the boot error message:
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piix4_smbus 0000:00:007.3: Host SMBus controller not enabled! |
This error is being caused because VMware doesn’t actually provide that level interface for CPU access, but Ubuntu try to load the kernel module anyway. How to fix it:
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sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf |
add the line:
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blacklist i2c-piix4 |
Reboot. NOTE: for older versions use blacklist i2c_piix4 […]
